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27 June 1973 (USA)
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Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern...
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1 win
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Oh la la - ‘tres amusant’ indeed
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It's Tati's World. We're just living in it.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jacques Tati | ... | Monsieur Hulot | |
| Barbara Dennek | ... | Young Tourist | |
| Rita Maiden | ... | Mr. Schultz's Companion (as Rita Maïden) | |
| France Rumilly | ... | Woman Selling Eyeglasses | |
| France Delahalle | ... | Shopper in Department Store | |
| Valérie Camille | ... | Mr. Lacs's Secretary | |
| Erika Dentzler | ... | Mme. Giffard | |
| Nicole Ray | ... | Singer | |
| Yvette Ducreux | ... | Hat Check Girl | |
| Nathalie Jem | |||
| Jacqueline Lecomte | ... | Young Tourist's Friend | |
| Oliva Poli | |||
| Alice Field | |||
| Sophie Wennek | |||
| Evy Cavallaro |
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Runtime:
France:155 min (with intermission and exit music) | 124 min (2002 restored version) | Sweden:115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
DTS 70 mm (70 mm prints) (restored version) |
Mono (35 mm prints)
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Singapore:PG |
Portugal:M/12 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U |
West Germany:12 (nf) (w)
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Production took place from October 1964 to October 1967. Filming began in April 1965 primarily on a set dubbed "Tativille", where 100 construction workers built two buildings using 11,700 square feet of glass, 38,700 square feet of plastic, 31,500 square feet of timber, and 486,000 square feet of concrete.
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Referenced in Playtime Story (2003) (TV)
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I comment 2 years after seeing "Playtime" at the Art Institute of Chicago, an event in which the film was presented in its original 70mm format for the first time since its debut. Over the years it had been cropped and recropped for standard prints and video leaving little of the original magic, which is the sheer SCOPE of this visual marvel.
Absolutely amazing sells "Play" short. The picture was so clear and the sequences so thrilling that I dare say this is Tati's Masterpiece. Apparently, he created an entire 1/5th scale city outside Paris and shot over the course of three years to get this honey in the can, and man-o-man, does it show.
This is the kind of film that reminds a viewer just how standardized modern cinematic narrative has become. Tati exists in an alternate plane of recorded consciousness; I walked out of "Play" as if hallucinating, having fully entered his perspective and adopted his suggestions as my own.
This is a film in balance with the nature of cinema itself; if Frank Lloyd Wright was a director, Tati would be his disciple: Tati's cinematic interpretations are in natural proportion to the distinctive elements of film. Visual dominance, sound hyperbarically in support of the image rhythm, help me I'm hallucinating again-thanks Jaques...
Don't miss this one, but don't see it in any other format than a special 70mm screening. Somebody put a screening together!!!